CATALOGUE. 
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under bright ferruginous ; throat white, flanked by a black streak ; 
cap black, bordered by a white superciliary streak and loral feathers ; 
ear-coverts dusky, minutely lineated with white, and posteriorly with 
rufous ; sides of the head ashy ; bill horny black above, below yel- 
lowish ; legs brownish. Length 6i in., of wing 2f in., and tail the 
same, its outermost feather f in. shorter, bill to forehead (through 
the feathers) in., to gape. |- in., and tarse 1^ in. 
Genus Brachypteryx, ffoi^sf. (p. 178). 
646. BRACHYPTERYX CRURALI8, Blyth. 
Calliope cruralis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XII. f. 933 
(1843). Kodgs., Cat. Birds of Nep. p. 70. 
Brachypteryx cruralis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XYI. p. 136 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 178. 
Larvivora cruralis, Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 301. 
Buticilla cruralis, G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 180. 
Larvivora homochroa, Hodgs., Gray^s Zool. Misc. (1844), 
p. 83. 
A. B. c. d ? • Nepal (No. 589, 885, Hodgs. CataL). 
Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Sept. 1853. 
B. cruralis. Male, colour above a deep cyaneous, or dark greyish- 
blue, paler on the belly, and relieved by a white superciliary streak 
confined to the base of the feathers, and yet showing conspicu- 
ously. Female, olivaceous-brown above ; forehead, lores, and throat 
ferruginous, paler or dusky ferruginous beneath; wings and tail 
ferruginous-brown ; bill black ; legs brownish dusky. Length 5^ in., 
of wing 2| in., tail If in., bill to front (through the feathers) | in., 
and typically formed, tarse li in. 
647. BRACHYPTERYX NIPALENSIS, Hodgson. 
Brachypteryx nipalensis, {Hodgs.) Moore, P. Z. S. 
(1854), p. 
A. B. c. d ? . Nepal (No. 948, Hodgs. CataL). Pre- 
sented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Sept., 1853. 
B. nipalensis. Male, colour above a greyish cyaneous, or light 
greyish blue, as are also the cheeks, sides of breast, and flanks, and 
paling to greyish white on the middle of the breast ; throat, middle 
of belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, a streak over, but not extending 
beyond the eye, white. Female, ferruginous-brown above, paler on 
